In a society in which it is a moral offense to be different from your neighbor your only escape is to never let them find out.

Wisdom includes not getting angry unnecessarily. The Law ignores trifles and the wise man does, too.

ANYTHING will burn with enough gasoline and dynamite.

I believe that this hairless embryo with the aching, oversize brain case and the opposable thumb, this animal barely up from the apes, will endure --will endure longer than his home planet, will spread out to the other planets, to the stars, and beyond, carrying with him his honesty, his insatiable curiosity, his unlimited courage --and his noble essential decency. This I believe with all my heart.

Violence never settles anything should be debated by the ghosts of Hitler and Stalin, with the city fathers of Carthage as referees.

No intelligent man has any respect for an unjust law.

Autobiography is usually honest but it is never truthful.